{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2134427,"song":"Brian Hennessey","artist":"Bobby Bare","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11463066-brian-hennessey-chords-by-bobby-bare/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2134427?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBrian Hennessey sat back and let the gypsy read his palm[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]                                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she whispered through her toothless gums and clutched him by the arm[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe said, ''Boy, I fear I see the devil's mark.''[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B[/ch]                                   [ch]E[/ch]   \r\nBrian Hennessey just laughed and pealed the ten-spot from his roll[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]B[/ch]\r\n'Cause he'd never ever known the taste of fear[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut he wondered why the summer nights should suddenly turn cold[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs the gypsy's words come ringing in his ear.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\n''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\n''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGo on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                 [ch]A[/ch]           \r\nBrian Hennessey walked through the doors of the Dining Dog Saloon[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]B[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhere he stopped to have his nightly glass of gin[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the one-eyed scar-faced stranger a dealing blackjack in the gloom[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]B[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]  \r\nWinked his ghastly grey glass eye and dealt him in.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBrian watched in fascination as the stranger's fingers flew[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhy he'd never seen such cheatin' done before[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd his hand closed round a handle of his snub-nose 32[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]B[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen the gypsy's warning come to him once more.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\n''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\n''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGo on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBrian Hennessey just folded up his cards and walked away[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHolding back the rage that burned his soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]A[/ch] \r\nAnd he stopped to have some coffee at the Mockingbird Cafe[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]B[/ch]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut that slender blue eyed waitress was his goal.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd a few words from his silver tongue soon turned her flighty head[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nShe said, ''My husband's out of town, you need not fear.''[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut as he pressed her to the softness of her flutty-feathered bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOn her pillows he saw written bright and clear.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOh, you can run, you can hide, daring letters clear and wide[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSaid you can't escape the fate that's in your hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGo on lay down Brian you're a dying man.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBrian Hennessey he stumbled down the stairs into the street[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd from that day on he changed his wicked life[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he never drunk or gambled and he never dealt no doop[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he never touched another fellow's wife.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]B[/ch]                                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd years later he met the gypsy when his days were almost done[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nHe said, ''Ha, ha, I beat your curse don't you know.''[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut when she saw the frightened, trembling, withered wretch that he'd become[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]B[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe said, ''Brian, you died twenty years ago.''[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus/Outro]\r\n[tab]               [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\n''Because you ran and you hid that's exactly what you did[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut you didn't escape the fate that's in your hand.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]  \r\nAnd say how did it feel to have dealt your final deal?[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGo on lay down Brian you're a dying man...''[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus/Outro]","chords":["E","A","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}